Within a matter of days, future Hall of Fame guard Dwyane Wade executed a buyout with arguably the worst team in the NBA and was able to join one of the best teams in the league. His decision to desert the Chicago Bulls in favor of the Cleveland Cavaliers makes a ton of basketball sense and, to illustrate just how much Wade wanted to make the move, he left approximately $8 million on the table to do it.
There is an entire conversation to be had as to whether Wade will positively impact the Cavs in attempting to chase down the Golden State Warriors and, frankly, there will be plenty of time for that. With that said, there is another trend that Cleveland sports fans are quite interested in and it has to do with another team from the city.
Back in November, Wade brought to line a potentially coincidental alignment between his arrival in a city and that city’s baseball team bringing home World Series glory.
I'm not mad at this… Haha pic.twitter.com/0SUmdtuaZX
— DWade (@DwyaneWade) November 3, 2016
While the 2003 Marlins and the 2016 Cubs operated under different circumstances, both were able to prevail in the end. It has been nearly 70 (!) years since the Indians claimed a World Series victory and, just one year after losing to the Cubs under the brightest lights of the sport, it certainly would be something if Cleveland was available to prevail in 2017 as Wade arrives.
Obviously, Dwyane Wade himself isn’t enough to bring a baseball title to Cleveland but, in short, the Indians are very good and fully capable of winning it all this year. If it happens, someone will certainly give Wade some of the credit and, at that point, there will be a few months between that victory and a lot more pressure when it comes to playing alongside LeBron James in the NBA Playoffs again.
